{"id":1829,"date":"2008-01-29T21:16:31","date_gmt":"2008-01-29T21:16:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=1829"},"modified":"2008-01-29T21:16:31","modified_gmt":"2008-01-29T21:16:31","slug":"the_comeback_ki","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=1829","title":{"rendered":"The Comeback &#8220;Kid&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Republicans look poised to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2008\/POLITICS\/01\/29\/fl.primary\/index.html\">nominate an old white man<\/a> for president. <i>Quel surprise<\/i>. McCain would be a tough opponent, especially considering his appeal to independents as a self-styled &#8220;maverick&#8221;. Then again, plenty of conservatives absolutely revile the man. McCain seems to inspire a lot of anxiety in the progressive blogosphere, but it&#8217;s a waste of time to fret about who will emerge as the opponent. If Democrats can&#8217;t capitalize on the current political climate, they don&#8217;t deserve to win.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Republicans look poised to nominate an old white man for president. Quel surprise. McCain would be a tough opponent, especially considering his appeal to independents as a self-styled &#8220;maverick&#8221;. Then again, plenty of conservatives absolutely revile the man. McCain seems to inspire a lot of anxiety in the progressive blogosphere, but it&#8217;s a waste <a href='https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=1829' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Iwau-tv","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1829\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}